Composite body



Pate ted m. '9, 1931 II 2,093,311 r ,UNITEDASTATES PATENT OFFICE COMPOSITE BODY Hans Pulfrich, Berlln-Wllmersdorf, Germany, asslgnor to General Electric Company, .a corporation of New York so Drawing. Application July 16, 1935, Serial No. 81,719. in Germany July 25, 1934 Claims. (01. 49-81) The present invention relates to a composite The following materials in which the ingredibody comprising a new refractory ceramic maents are indicated in molecular proportions are 138218.]. It is the object of my invention to provige illustrative of my invention: I

re ractory materials which are adapted to ma e 5 a vacuum-tight or hermetical seal when welded 2 mols magnesium oxide 1 titanium nude or joined by fusion to glass or by means of glass 1 magnesium oxide 1 titanium oxide I 2 mols beryllium oxide 1 mol. titanium oxide metal 1 mol. beryllium oxide 1 mol. titanium oxide The new compositions embodying my inven- 2 mols magnesium oxide 1 moi. zirconium oxide comprise titanates or zmmnates of earth lmol. magnesium oxide 1 mol. zirconium oxide 10 metals, such as magnesium or beryllium. A preferred embodiment of my invention has as main 2 g g i i g g i 3 833? 833: components magnesium oxide and titanium oxide mo cry um 0 6 m in equal parts by weight. 1 The readiness with which the ceramic bodies In the production of vacuum tubes, and the embodying my invention can be fusion-sealed to '1 like, it is frequently desired to join a refractory glass renders them'particularly suitable for the body directly to glass. Such a union involves fabrication of vacuum tubes. For example, in great difliculty especially when soft glass is emthe manufacture of incandescent lamps and elec ployed. Upon cooling cracks occur which cause trical discharge tubes, it is possible to employ leaks. I plates consisting of such materials which replace In utilizing my invention there is joined to the the heretofore customary stem and base con- 20 glass component a ceramic material which has as struction. Besides effecting a simplification and main components oxide of the class consisting of reduction in size of the construction the use of magnesium and beryllium and oxide of the class such materials effects a saving of metal. It is consisting of titanium and zirconium. Although possible to make the entire electric vacuum tube it is preferred to use substantially pure .co'mpocontainer from material embodying my invention 25 sitions the use of modifying additions is not preand to make electrode supports from such macluded, for example, agents to reduce the sinterterial. ing temperature. Such materials can be readily In my co-pending application Serial No, 118,677, sintered at about 1400 to 1500" C. The sintered filed December 31, 1936, which application is a bodies are gas-tight and are stable 'andresistcontinuation-in-part of the present application, 30 ant to temperature changes. They can be fusion- I have made claims to a ceramic material which sealed to soft glass, such seals causingno difllculmay be usedin making a composite body such as ties due to the favorable expansion coemcient. disclosed and claimed in this application. I

- Likewise, fusion seals with metals, such as cop- What I claimas 'new and desire to secure by per-clad wire, chrome-iron, chrome-nickel, and Letters Patent of the United States is: I 35 iron-nickel alloys, platinum, etc. can be readily 1. A composite body consisting in part of a made. For this purpose, an enamel or soft glass glass member and in part of a member of magmay be used as a sealing agent, that is to say, nesium titanatc, said members being fusiona material such as glassis bonded to the metal, welded to one another.

40 and to the glass is fusion-welded ceramic mate- 2. A compositebody comprising a glass member 40 rial of the kind herein described. The metals also and a member composed of a ceramic material maybe joined by spray deposition or by sinter having as main components oxide of the class deposition. I I consisting of magnesium and beryllium and oxide Although magnesium oxide is employed in preof the class consisting of titanium and zirconium.

ferred embodiments of my invention, magnesium said members being fusion-welded to one another. 45 oxide may be partly or wholly replaced by beryl- 3. A composite body consisting in part of a lium oxide; also, titanium oxide may be replaced glass member and in part of a member of a partly or wholly by zirconium oxide. I desire compound having as a-base component beryllium by the accompanying claims to cover all such oxide and having as an acid component an oxide variations and modifications of my invention. of the class consisting of titanium and zirconium,

said members being fusion-welded to one another. 1 4. A composite body comprising a. glass memher and a member composed of a ceramic material having as main components magnesium oxide 5 and titanium oxide, said members being fusionwelded to one another.

5. A composite body comprising a metallic of the class consisting of titanium and zirconium. 5

HANS PULFJ CH.

DI SCI-Al M E R 2,098,811.Hans Pulfr'ich, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany. COMPOSITE BODY. Pat

ent dated November 9, 1937. Disclaimer filed May General Electric Company.

Hereb enters this disclaimer to claims 1 and 4 of said L jficial Gazette May 23, 1.939.]

2, 1939, by the assignee,

I etters Patent. 

